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Dr. Blackford serves as editor-in-chief of the IEET’s Journal of Evolution and Technology writes frequently on issues related to emerging technology, including the ethics and regulation of cloning, stem cell research, and human enhancement. His work has appeared in many magazines and journals, including Australian Law Review , Cosmos , Foundation , Journal of Law and Medicine , Journal of Popular Culture , Journal of Medical Ethics Meanjin , Monash Bioethics Review New York Review of Science Fiction, Quadrant , Science Fiction, Science Fiction Sudies , and Westerly .
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My top 10 posts of 2012 from Talking Philosophy - a personal selection
My ten most popular posts of all time
Sunday supervillainy - Amazing Spider-Man #700
Some scattered highlights of 2012
Books
The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays by eds. Max More and Natasha Vita-More (2013)
Freedom of Religion and the Secular State by Russell Blackford (2012)
50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists by eds. Udo Schuklenk and Russell Blackford (2009)
Times of Trouble (Book Three of Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles) by Russell Blackford (2005)
An Evil Hour (Book Two of Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles) by Russell Blackford (2005)
Dark Futures (Book One of Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles) by Russell Blackford (2005)
Kong Reborn by Russell Blackford (2005)
Dark Futures by Russell Blackford (2002)
Strange Constellations : A History of Australian Science Fiction by Russell Blackford, Van Ikin, and Sean McMullen (1999)
Hyperdreams: Damien Broderick’s Space/Time Fiction by Russell Blackford (1998)
Contrary Modes by Russell Blackford (1985)
Urban Fantasies by Russell Blackford (1985)
The Tempting of the Witch King (a fantasy novel) by Russell Blackford (1983)
Articles
"The dreaded c-word: updated" The Hellfire Club
Apr 3, 2013
"The Dublin Declaration on Secularism and Advancing Australia’s Secularism" The Hellfire Club
Mar 22, 2013
"Disinviting speakers – the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate debacle" The Hellfire Club
Mar 16, 2013
"Rationalist Society manifesto for a secular Australia" The Hellfire Club
Mar 12, 2013
"Sex in Samoa – Margaret Mead not so wrong after all?" The Hellfire Club
Mar 11, 2013
"Same-sex marriage case approaches US Supreme Court hearing" The Hellfire Club
Mar 1, 2013
"Sunday Supervillainy on Thursday – “mutant women of Earth”" The Hellfire Club
Feb 21, 2013
"Iceland’s Illiberal Agenda" The Hell Fire Club
Feb 18, 2013
"It’s a wash – the evidence about pornography" Ethical Technology
Feb 13, 2013
"Is abortion a greater evil than sex abuse?" Ethical Technology
Nov 25, 2012
"Atheism, Philosophy and Morality (interview by Rational Hub)" Rational Hub
Oct 26, 2012
"Sam Harris on the “Innocence of Muslims” affair" Talking Philosophy
Sep 23, 2012
"Online Vitriol and Derision - it is Necessary?" Talking Philosophy
Sep 12, 2012
"What is this Thing called Enhancement?" Talk
Sep 5, 2012
"Is Nice Nihilism Enough?" Talking Philosophy
Aug 31, 2012
"Civility and Free Speech" Talking Philosophy
Aug 6, 2012
"Same-Sex Couples to the Rescue of Marriage?" Talking Philosophy
Jul 20, 2012
"What is a Sexual Image?" Talking Philosophy
Jul 16, 2012
"Peter Singer on “Freedom of Religion”" Talking Philosophy
Jun 30, 2012
"The Avengers Need More Women on Their Team" Metamagician3000
May 28, 2012
"We Are Doing Something Right: Steven Pinker and the Decline of Violence" Religion and Ethics
Mar 31, 2012
"My Top 12 Books of the Year" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Dec 24, 2011
"Reviewing “The Moral Landscape” by Sam Harris" Journal of Evolution and Technology
Jan 14, 2011
"#6: In Support of Boobquake" Ethical Technology
Dec 26, 2010
"#16: Science, Morality, and Sam Harris" Ethical Technology
Dec 16, 2010
"#20: Vatican Condemns Nobel Prize to Robert Edwards" Ethical Technology
Dec 12, 2010
"Will science put the humanities out of business?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Nov 12, 2010
"Sam Harris on the illusion of free will" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Nov 6, 2010
"What you can’t say about Islam - The backlash against Elizabeth Moon" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Oct 28, 2010
"Fundamentalism" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Oct 11, 2010
"Vatican condemns Nobel Prize to Robert Edwards" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Oct 6, 2010
"Beyond the “New Atheism”?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Sep 27, 2010
"Survival Beyond the Flesh" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Sep 10, 2010
"A Pathetic Attempt to Oppose Same-Sex Marriage" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Aug 16, 2010
"Catching up with the X-Universe" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Aug 10, 2010
"The Californian Gay Marriage Decision" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Aug 6, 2010
"The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jun 30, 2010
"Teenage births and abortions - responsibility is better than moralism" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
May 30, 2010
"Irish University Goes Batty" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
May 25, 2010
"Sam Harris on a science of morality" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
May 18, 2010
"In Support of Boobquake" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Apr 26, 2010
"A no-brainer?—Freedom from Religion Foundation v. Obama" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Apr 17, 2010
"Metaethics Makes Slow Progress" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Apr 9, 2010
"New York Court Strikes Down Gene Patents" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Apr 5, 2010
"Moral by definition? (Some slightly technical philosophy.)" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Mar 30, 2010
"Reviewing “Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion”" Cosmos
Mar 27, 2010
"Science, Morality, and Sam Harris" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Mar 25, 2010
"Morality, With Limits" Guardian
Mar 21, 2010
"Do Secularists Contribute to Social Divisiveness?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Mar 10, 2010
"Is religious freedom self-contradictory?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Feb 4, 2010
"Blame it on Nietzsche" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jan 27, 2010
"Does a child need both a mother and a father?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jan 23, 2010
"Danger: Teleologist at work! Robert Wright’s “The Evolution of God”" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jan 19, 2010
"Implausibility, Transcendence, and Atheism" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jan 10, 2010
"Nietzsche and European Posthumanisms" Journal of Evolution and Technology 21(1):i-iii
Jan 8, 2010
"Voicing Our Disbelief" TPM
Jan 5, 2010
"On Singer and Radical Life Extension" Sentient Developments
Dec 29, 2009
"What About the Children?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Dec 20, 2009
"Why Singer is Wrong About Radical Life Extension" Journal of Medical Ethics 2009;35:747-752
Dec 11, 2009
"Evil and Me" 50 Voices of Disbelief
Nov 22, 2009
"Imagine No Religion" 50 Voices of Disbelief
Nov 9, 2009
"The Unconditional Love of Reality" 50 Voices of Disbelief
Nov 5, 2009
"The great accommodationism debate" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jun 20, 2009
"Killer robots in war" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
May 22, 2009
"Remembering Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein" normblog
May 12, 2009
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
May 10, 2009
"Should Scientists Accomodate Religious Sensibilities?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Apr 28, 2009
"Choosing Between Possible Lives" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Apr 9, 2009
"Why don’t they talk about defamation of science?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Feb 28, 2009
"The idiocy of “defamation of religion”" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Feb 17, 2009
"On the Yes! statement by the Order of Cosmic Engineers" Sentient Developments
Jan 24, 2009
"The Core Idea of Transhumanism" Sentient Developments
Jan 22, 2009
"Where’s my alien civilisation?" Sentient Developments
Jan 20, 2009
"This postmillennialism nonsense" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jan 12, 2009
"What about the children?!" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jan 7, 2009
"Transhumanist theology" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jul 24, 2008
"Pickering on transhumanism" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jul 16, 2008
"Hayles shadowboxes with transhumanism" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jul 5, 2008
"Dupuy’s “anti-humanism”" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jun 30, 2008
"Are transhumanists idol worshippers?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jun 29, 2008
"On the Templeton Foundation’s “Engaging Transhumanism”" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jun 27, 2008
"Thoughts on art and nudity" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jun 9, 2008
"Hollywood versus the Mutants" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
May 31, 2008
"Same-sex marriages today, polygamous marriages tomorrow?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
May 21, 2008
"Transhumanism still at the crossroads" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Apr 22, 2008
"Do we want a truly liberal society?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Apr 14, 2008
"Fitna and freedom of speech" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Apr 2, 2008
"Intelligent Design Movie Is Not for Heathens" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Mar 22, 2008
"Religion and nanotechnology" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Feb 17, 2008
"Genetics, ethics, and the state - revisited" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Nov 11, 2007
"Shadows of the Endarkenment from Montreal" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Nov 7, 2007
"Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Sep 29, 2007
"Does science presuppose naturalism?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Sep 25, 2007
"Living with Darwin" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Sep 21, 2007
"On free will and moral responsibility" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Aug 6, 2007
"Saletan on Sandel and human perfection" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Aug 1, 2007
"Consciousness emerges?" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jul 22, 2007
"Naturalistic pluralism and the challenge of human enhancement" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Jun 17, 2007
"Why science has to fight an uphill battle" Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
May 31, 2007
"Are there aliens out there? Don’t bet on it yet." Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Apr 29, 2007
Recent Multimedia
Russell Blackford: Freedom of Religion
Atheism, Life Extension and the Singularity
The Problem of Evil
Earth: A Century Hence News
IEET Fellows Selinger and Blackford quoted in NYTimes Was Nietzsche a Transhumanist? New Special Issue of JET Online: Minds and Machines Hughes and Blackford featured in Free Inquiry New JET article by Nicholas Agar New Articles in JET New Issue of JET Now Available JET rated “A” by Australian government Blackford and Schuklenk interviewed about 50 Voices JET - issue 20(1) now complete New articles published in JET Global Spiral Publishes Ten Defenses of Transhumanism Update on Russell’s Voices of Disbelief New issue of JET Celebrating our past, imagining our future Russell about to publish Voices of Disbelief Andy, Russell and Heather at Andy’s Human Futures Conference Russell turns in his dissertation Latest issue of JET Russell’s new book project, Voices of Disbelief Latest from JET Russell Blackford is the New Editor of the Journal of Evolution and Technology The future of sex, and God, and everything else Betterhumans Relaunching With IEET Columnists Pursuing the Longevity Dividend: Scientific Goals for an Aging World Blackford publishes Kong Reborn Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Past Appearances
Russell Blackford on “A Secular Approach to the Risks and Benefits of Emerging Technologies” Russell on “The Case Against Radical Enhancement: Assessing the Central Arguments” Blackford @ Council for Secular Humanism Blackford on “Freedom of Religion and the Secular State” Blackford on “Thomas Pynchon?” to Existentialist Society Russell Blackford on uploading @ Singularity Summit Australia Russell Blackford on “Science Fiction and Technoscience” @ World Science Fiction Convention Russell Blackford on “The Problem of Evil” Blackford @ Anticipation, the 67th Worldcon Miah, Blackford @ Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty Russell Blackford on Sinning Against Nature
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